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by wduquette 839 days ago
I had a Kaypro-4 "Plus 88", back in the day. It had a bigger screen than the Osborne, full 80x24, with a VT-100-style keyboard, and came bundled with lots of software, just like the Osborne. The "Plus 88" in the name meant that it had an 8088 coprocessor board with 256KB of memory, on which you could run MS-DOS and dBase II....or you could use it as a RAM drive (remember those?), which is what I did.

Turbo Pascal 1.0 for CP/M-80 came out very shortly thereafter, and as a guy who'd previously used UCSD Pascal on PDP-11 and Apple Pascal on the Apple II (which was just UCSD Pascal), I was in heaven. Great machine; I remember it very fondly.